LGBTQ Researchers in Psychology

[researchpulse]

Hey folks! I've been compiling an initial long list for Clinical Psych PhD and/or Counseling PsyD programs I may apply to for Fall 2015. The main filter I'm using right now is based on finding an adviser doing research focused on LGBTQ populations. I've been surprised by how difficult it is to find these researchers and was hoping to start a thread that highlights these people's work in one place. After several weeks of research, here's who I've found so far:

 

• Bryan Cochran PhD, University of Montana
• David Huebner PhD, University of Utah
• Paul Kwon PhD, Washington State University
• Margaret Rosario PhD, CUNY
• Melanie Brewster PhD, Teacher's College Columbia University
• Michael Lau PhD, Teacher's College Columbia University
• Tania Israel PhD, UC Santa Barbara
• Perry Halkitis PhD, NYU (Not LGBTQ specific, but HIV AIDS specific)
• Marvin Goldfried PhD, Stony Brook
• Amos Zeichner PhD, University of Georgia (Emeritus)

Note that I'm listed faculty who actually publish research on LGBTQ issues. Many researchers list this as an interest, but do not actually publish work on this topic.

 

If you know of any faculty in clinical or counseling programs doing this research, please add them to the list! Thank you!

[SomeSortaPsych]

I believe Mark Vosvick at the University of North Texas does research with LGBT and HIV/AIDS Populations as well (Counseling Psych)

Edited May 2, 2014 by SomeSortaPsych

[ImHis]

Dr. Trevor Hart at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada does research on HIV transmission/prevention for MSM.

[QASP]

Dr. Mike Parent, at Texas Tech in counseling.

 

Dr. Jane Simoni at University of Washington in clinical.

 

Dr. David Pantalone & Dr. Heidi Levitt at UMass Boston in clinical, Dr. Sharon Horne at UMass Boston in counseling.

[citypsych]

If you're interested in publications (actively publishing researchers) focused on LGBTQ issues in particular, it would be simpler and faster to do a lit search from which you can obviously get the authors's names.

[lewin]

If you're interested in publications (actively publishing researchers) focused on LGBTQ issues in particular, it would be simpler and faster to do a lit search from which you can obviously get the authors's names.

 

Good advice. I find the "research interests" listed on faculty webpages, if the OP is looking there, can be misleading. I can mean anything from "active researcher" to "an idea I'm interested in" to "I did this twenty years ago".

[QASP]

If you're interested in publications (actively publishing researchers) focused on LGBTQ issues in particular, it would be simpler and faster to do a lit search from which you can obviously get the authors's names.

 

I find this method incredibly ineffective for finding people to work with in grad programs; a lot of people publishing in the field who work for hospitals, work in the UK (or some other non-US locale), are at schools that do not have doctoral programs, etc. etc. etc. I think it's actually more effective to go to departmental websites, check interest lists and CV's to get a sense, and email professors to see if they're taking students with those interests.

[Lisa44201]

I find this method incredibly ineffective for finding people to work with in grad programs; a lot of people publishing in the field who work for hospitals, work in the UK (or some other non-US locale), are at schools that do not have doctoral programs, etc. etc. etc. I think it's actually more effective to go to departmental websites, check interest lists and CV's to get a sense, and email professors to see if they're taking students with those interests.

I disagree. This is how I found my POIs; I found myself citing the same group of people repeatedly, and made a list.

[QASP]

I don't know, almost everyone I was citing while conducting research (whose work I thought was good....) worked in a place that did not have a clinical psychology program. I understand that method works for some (maybe even many?), but I wasted a lot of hours trying to find POI's that way and I wouldn't recommend it generally as a strategy. Ended up going through the list of APA accredited programs to find researchers instead, which worked out well for me.

[researchpulse]

If you're interested in publications (actively publishing researchers) focused on LGBTQ issues in particular, it would be simpler and faster to do a lit search from which you can obviously get the authors's names.

 

Definitely can be a good source, but as others have posted, it's not always the most direct way to finding potential advisers. I've always found word of mouth to be the most accurate info gathering method with adviser interests. That's why we're all on here right?

 

Thanks to others who posted other faculty they know of. Keep 'em coming!

[juilletmercredi]

I think it's a combination of approaches that works best - checking departmental websites, checking citations and publications, and checking with people who are in a position to know.  LGBTQ issues is actually my research area so I'm familiar (by publication, I mean) with quite a few on the list!

 

• Vickie Mays, UCLA (used to do more LGBT stuff but now does ethnic minorities and women, looks like; might be some intersections)
• Seth Kalichman, UConn (he's in social, but may do cross-disciplinary advisement)
• Jeff Parsons, CUNY-Hunter (in developmental, but ditto here on the cross-disciplinary stuff.  Has a super awesome active lab)
• Brian Mustanski, Northwestern (he's joint in medical social sciences and psychology)
• John Pachankis, Yale (in epidemiology but could probably advise in psych)
• Dawn Szymanski, UT-Knoxville
• Arnold Grossman, NYU
• Mary Rotheram-Borus, UCLA (cross-appointed with medicine.  Her stuff intersects with LGBT rather than being solely focused on it.)

Also, Perry Halkitis does definitely do LGBTQ-specific research.  He does do broader HIV/AIDS work, but most of his prior work has been with gay and bisexual men.

 

Also, note that professors in other departments, and even other schools, often advise students in different areas of social psychology and across schools (especially public health and psychology)  One of my dissertation committee members specializes in this area; he got his PhD in clinical psych from Yale, but worked with people in public health and the school of medicine in addition to working with folks from psych.

Edited May 16, 2014 by juilletmercredi

[juilletmercredi]

ALso, at UCSF, both Mallory Johnson and Margaret Chesney do lots of LBGT and HIV prevention work.  They're both psychologists, and while they're both at the medical school, I'm sure they can advise!

[Guest joshw4288]

There are tons of professors in the CUNY system that research LGBT, HIV, MSM etc issues. Go to http://www.chestnyc.org/research-active.html and look at the list of researchers involved in CHEST. Note, don't look at the staff of CHEST but rather look at the faculty affiliates and click on the individual research projects to see who is sponsoring the research within the university where the data is being collected. 

[Psykir]

Alejandro Morales    Pomona U

 

Roger L. Worthington  U of Missoury

[MFlores16]

Brandon L. Velez, PhD, he is starting at Teacher's College (Counseling Psychology) on Fall 2014.

Laurel B. Watson, PhD, she is a new assistant professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (Counseling Psychology) and my advisor for when I start this Fall.

Cirleen DeBlaere, PhD, she is an assistant professor at Georgia State University (Counseling Psychology).

 

 

Note that all of them are faculty in a Counseling Psychology PhD program, not PsyD.

[PsychStudent4Life]

Having just gone through the process I thought I would add some names. Oh and also, I looked into getting mentorship from folks in the 'Med Schools' and that didn't work. I was told that my primary mentor would need to be in the psych department (for example at Yale and Northwestern) and that it would be "very unlikely" someone would want to admit me knowing that the person I really wanted to work with was in the medical school. Just for what its worth.

Boston College has Paul Poteat (Counseling)

Marquette- Heck (Clinical)

SDSU- Blashill (Clinical/BMed)

UKY- Hammer, Rostosky, Fedewa (Counseling/School)

UKY- Farr (Developmental)

UTKnoxville - Szymanski (Counseling), Miles (Counseling)

UGA - Lavner (Clinical)

UMontana- Cochran (Clinical)

UMiami- Safren (Clinical/Health)

Anyway- I'm sure there are more, including those listed above, but this is what I had on my list from the most recent application cycle.

[Applicant 1746]

Jon Mohr at U Maryland (Counseling) studies stigma with respect to LGB groups.

[FacelessMage]

There's Kevin Alderson in the counselling program at the University of Calgary.